Nuts to Alaska! More Sarah Palin Bloviating
by Jim Washburn
More nutbar comportment from Sarah Palin, this time on her Facebook page, where she griped:
The response in the mainstream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the “politics of personal destruction”. How sad that Washington and the media will never understand: It’s about country. And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make. But every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it’s right for all, including your family.
What is it with the sad Washington media, where they regard Palin differently just because “the countless others who leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term” usually actually did go to a higher calling, like being president or senator. They didn’t go on to be whiny quitters. They didn’t decide it was just too much bother to fulfill their oaths of office any longer. They didn’t hide behind their children when they made their decision.
Of course, I’m forgetting that she talks with God. They’re pretty close, those two, and we’re not as privy as she to His Big Plans for her. Maybe he needs her to personally shoot all the moose.
In her resignation speech, Palin closed with Gen. Douglas McArthur’s famous bit: “We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.” And we’re supposed to draw a parallel there? Maybe it would be easier to connect if McArthur had abandoned his post and fled the battleflield because he figured he’d already accomplished twice as much as most generals would, plus he and his corncob pipe had a lucrative book to write.
In running for governor, you ask citizens to entrust their vote to you. You make a compact with the public that you are to be its servant; to do the jobs they elected you to do; to make sure things work, to govern, governor. Along with adding some leadership and razzmatazz to the civic landscape, you’re expected to do the unglamorous daily work of making a state function. You get perks and power aplenty, and you’re granted that, with the expectation that you also get the job done.
And now she’s scooted off to the sidelines, where, like the press she complains of, all she needs to do is bitch about the jobs done by others, the ones who don’t quit.
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